430,000-Year-Old Wooden Handheld Tools are Earliest Ever Found

Jan 27, 2026 - 13:45
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430,000-Year-Old Wooden Handheld Tools are Earliest Ever Found
An artist’s impression of a Marathousa 1 woman producing a digging stick from a small alder tree trunk with a small stone tool. Image credit: G. Prieto / K. Harvati.

Archaeologists say they have discovered the ‘earliest known handheld wooden tools’ at the Middle Pleistocene site of Marathousa 1 in Greece.

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